The planning commission decided to leave the decision up to the city as to whether they would modify the developers plans.

Over the past few months, neighbors and the developer came to a few agreements when it came to the monastery including preserving the monastery, keeping it open for public use, and making the surrounding proposed developments into apartments instead of student housing.

"Through meetings with the neighbors and the developers we've come up with four pretty significant deal points. Number one, the monastery will be preserved, number two it will not be student housing, number three there will be a public use of the monastery and number four we've significantly reduced the massing from where we started," said Steve Kozachik, the council member for Ward 6, which the monastery is in.

Now, the issue lies within possibly amending the agreement that was reached, specifically when it comes to the height of the proposed developments.

"There were two really big points of contention from the start, the size and demolition of the monastery. Demolition is off the table, we took care of that a few months ago, now we're talking about size," said Kozachik.

In an original proposal, the developer, Ross Rulney expressed he wanted the proposed developments to be roughly seven stories high, which neighbors said no to.